Resumption
[rɪ'zʊm(p)ʃ(ə)n] or [rɪ'zʌmpʃən]
Definition
(n.) The act of resuming; as, the resumption of a grant, of delegated powers, of an argument, of specie payments, etc.
(n.) The taking again into the king's hands of such lands or tenements as he had granted to any man on false suggestions or other error.
Typist: Weldon
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See RESUME]
Editor: Sheldon
Definition
n. act of resuming or taking back again as the resumption of a grant: the return to special payments.—adj. Resump′tive.—n. a restoring medicine.
Checked by Ernest
Examples
- I infer, glancing at his hands again, in the resumption of some old pursuit connected with the shock? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The fight that followed was a long one and delayed the resumption of the march for an hour. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- By this time the audience were perfectly silent, and waited with some anxiety for the resumption of business. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It is really far more like a resumption of Alexander's. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- On the day preceding its resumption, the Doctor gave me with his own hands a folded note not sealed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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